The Right to Know? State Politics of Fracking Disclosure

Fisk, Jonathan M.

doi:10.1111/ropr.12025

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“…Gullion () examines how “reluctant activists” working to pass restrictive city ordinances are responding to natural gas development in their communities by defining it as a threat to community health and cause of disease. Heikkila, Pierce, et al () document the use of energy security and public health perceptions of fracking while democratic values like community right‐to‐know are being promulgated at the local and state levels (Fisk, ; Heikkila, Weible, et al, 2014). Finally, a growing number of studies explore at what level of government from federal (Davis & Hoffer, ; Warner & Shapiro, ) to local (Davis, ) and through which regulatory mechanisms and rulemaking processes (Rinfret et al, ) fracking is being addressed.…”

Section: Framing Natural Gas: Economy Versus Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framed for Compromise? The Role of Bill Framing in State Legislative Behavior on Natural Gas Policy

Kalaf-Hughes¹,

Kear²

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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State legislative decision making on natural gas policy has become a balancing act, as legislators are forced to grapple with tensions between economically beneficial policies and environmental impacts. Despite increased public attention to the benefits and costs related to hydraulic fracturing, there has been little scholarly attention paid to how policy framing affects legislator behavior on this issue. We analyze recorded votes on bills relating to natural gas policy in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico between 1999 and 2008; a time period spanning the recent boom. Using a novel database of bill frames, we create a ratio measure that accounts for the proportion of environmental to economic arguments within each piece of legislation. We find status quo–challenging, anti‐development policies can receive bipartisan support, as long as economic frames balance or are greater than environmental frames. Framing natural gas as a win‐win scenario where economic benefit and environmental protection can be achieved simultaneously is an effective legislative strategy. Using the case of natural gas policy, this study demonstrates bill framing substantively affects state legislator vote choice and implies bipartisan compromise is possible given the right balance of frames.

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Section: Framing Natural Gas: Economy Versus Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framed for Compromise? The Role of Bill Framing in State Legislative Behavior on Natural Gas Policy

Kalaf-Hughes¹,

Kear²

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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“…This has led to the extraction of crude oil and natural gas from 'unconventional' reserves such as tar sands and shale formations which were previously untouched for environmental reasons (Charpentier et al, 2009;Brasier et al, 2011;Vidic et al, 2013). Other factors, such as the irregularities in supplies and distribution, the challenges of accessing and procuring unconventional fuels, and occasional political instabilities in major supply regions, have caused general uncertainty regarding global reliability on fossil fuels in the coming decades (Fisk, 2013;Hughes and Lipscy, 2013;Nathan et al, 2013).…”

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Prospects for bioenergy use in Ghana using Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning model

Kemausuor

Nygaard

Mackenzie

2015

Energy

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As Ghana's economy grows, the choice of future energy paths and policies in the coming years will have a significant influence on its energy security. A Renewable Energy Act approved in 2011 seeks to encourage the influx of renewable energy sources in Ghana's energy mix. The new legal framework combined with increasing demand for energy has created an opportunity for dramatic changes in the way energy is generated in Ghana. However, the impending changes and their implication remain uncertain. This paper examines the extent to which future energy scenarios in Ghana could rely on energy from biomass sources, through the production of biogas, liquid biofuels and electricity. Analysis was based on moderate and high use of bioenergy for transportation, electricity generation and residential fuel using the LEAP model. Results obtained indicate that introducing bioenergy to the energy mix could reduce GHG emissions by about 6 million tonnes CO2e by 2030, equivalent to a 14% reduction in a businessas-usual scenario. This paper advocates the use of second generation ethanol for transport, to the extent that it is economically exploitable. Resorting to first generation ethanol would require the allocation of over 580,000 ha of agricultural land for ethanol production.

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“…Ingestion of such additives can affect respiratory, gastro-intestinal, endocrine and central nervous systems (Colborn et al 2011). The disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluid chemical contents and their subsequent regulation has therefore remained a key issue of public concern in fracking politics in the USA (Maule et al 2013, Fisk 2013. The UK response has been to publish industry best practice guidelines for operators: ensuring that they must disclose the chemical additives of fracturing fluids on a well-by-well basis, and this information must be made publicly available online (with information published here: UKOOG 2015).…”

Section: Environmental Impacts Of Hydraulic Fracturingmentioning

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Fair fracking? Ethics and environmental justice in United Kingdom shale gas policy and planning

Cotton

2016

Local Environment

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The exploitation of shale gas resources is a significant issue of environmental justice. Uneven distributions of risks and social impacts to local site communities must be balanced against the economic benefits to gas users and developers; and unequal decision-making powers must be negotiated between local and central government, communities and fracking site developers. These distributive and procedural elements are addressed in relation to UK policy, planning, regulatory and industry development. I adopt an explicitly normative framework of policy evaluation; addressing a research gap on the ethics of shale gas by operationalising Shrader-FrechetteÕs Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality (PPFPE). I conclude that UK fracking policy reveals inherent contradictions of environmental justice in relation to the Conservative GovernmentÕs localist and planning reform agendas. Early fracking policy protected communities from harm in the wake of seismic risk events, but these were quickly replaced with pro-industry economic stimulation and planning legislation that curtailed community empowerment in fracking decision-making, increased environmental risks to communities, transferred powers from local to central government, and created the conditions of distributive injustices in the management of community benefit provisions. I argue that only by Ôre-localisingÕ the scale of fracking governance can political equality be ensured and the distributive and procedural environmental injustices be ameliorated.

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The Right to Know? State Politics of Fracking Disclosure

Cited by 47 publications

References 41 publications

Framed for Compromise? The Role of Bill Framing in State Legislative Behavior on Natural Gas Policy

Framed for Compromise? The Role of Bill Framing in State Legislative Behavior on Natural Gas Policy

Prospects for bioenergy use in Ghana using Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning model

Fair fracking? Ethics and environmental justice in United Kingdom shale gas policy and planning

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